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- until Wenger moves on, they'll always be the also-rans in the major competitions. A club in elite purgatory. Always good enough to make it to the big race, never fast or smart enough to push over the finish line in first place. That's all about the manager. Until he changes, Arsenal fans will continue to celebrate glorious failure.

Gunnersingh1Watch Holding and Mustafis reactions. They're morw to blame than Monreal, poor reading of the game as usual from the pair of them.

He could pick the ball up and boot it into his own net and you'd still say it was some else's fault. Amazed you haven't blamed Cech for it to be honest.It must be exhausting only supporting about three of our players.

Well that was pretty horrible to watch...again
Ref blew up early though with us on the ball and them just booking a player for time wasting. Having said that we could have had another hour and not scored

Gunnersingh1Watch Holding and Mustafis reactions. They're morw to blame than Monreal, poor reading of the game as usual from the pair of them.

He could pick the ball up and boot it into his own net and you'd still say it was some else's fault. Amazed you haven't blamed Cech for it to be honest.It must be exhausting only supporting about three of our players.

That's why are defence is s hit they don't cover for each other.

I've said it was a poor header by Minreal does that mean we have to let a goal in? Hell no!

At the exact moment Monreal headed the ball upwards, i went 'uh oh'. I swear that at that time I knew it was going to lead to a Newcastle goal. Sure enough.

Why can't he, with all his experience, do better than head it upwards?

its this kind of things, that little hesitation, this is what has been killing us. Shane Long's goal where Mustafi hesitates.

Its always that. Sometimes the chances are nothing at all.Most of the goals we conceded are not from seemingly dangerous attacks but from nothing chances!! I disagree its a Wenger thing. Its a personnel thing. Wenger didnt make Adams, Sol, Keown, Dixon become poor defenders, did he?

We simply have not recruited well in this area which for years has been our achiles heel. Kos was good a few seasons ago, now he has gone downhill. We simply have the worse bunch of defenders in the league. We need to change the entire defensive line-up spending top dollars in the process.

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